Tabarka Ras Rajel War Cemetery

• Country Tunisia
• Total identified casualties 441 Find these casualties
• Identified casualties from Second World War
• GPS Coordinates Latitude: 36.95336, Longitude: 8.86642

Location information

Tabarka is a coastal town near the Tunisian/Algerian border. The cemetery is approximately 12 kilometres east of the town on Route GP7 to Tunis (and Beja). GPS Co-ordinates: N 36° 57' 05", E 08° 52' 06"

Visiting information

ARRIVAL

The route to the cemetery from Tabarka is signposted.

PARKING

There is no car park, but it is possible to park in front of the main entrance off to the side of the main road in the lay-by. The ground is flat compacted earth and gravel.

ACCESS, LAYOUT AND MAIN ENTRANCE

The cemetery is square shaped and directly off the main road.

Access into the cemetery is by the main entrance and through the double metal gates. The cemetery gates are approximately 1 metre wide each and are not padlocked.

The gravel in front of the entrance is flush with the stone paving entrance.

The Cross of Sacrifice stands at the furthest point of the cemetery from the main entrance. It is raised on a grassed plinth with six stone steps up to the grass area around the Cross of Sacrifice.

All cemetery internal paths are grass, the ground is flat and level.

The Register Box is located at the main entrance, inside the cemetery in the left column facing the gate.

There are no benches or seats in the cemetery.

Please see additional information for timetable of availability of the cemetery Register and Visitors book.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The cemetery is not locked and is permanently open.

The Cemetery Register and Visitors Book are not available outside of the gardener’s working hours, please see below for gardener’s working hours:

SUMMER

July to August Mon to Thu 0630 to 1430

Fri 0630 to 1330

WINTER

September to June Mon to Thu 0700 to 1200 1300 to 1700

Fri 0700 to 1200 1300 to 1600

RAMADAN

Mon to Fri 0700 to 1400

History information

In May 1943, the war in North Africa came to an end in Tunisia with the defeat of the Axis powers by a combined Allied force.

On 8 November 1942, Commonwealth and American troops made a series of landings in Algeria and Morocco. The Germans responded immediately by sending a force from Sicily to northern Tunisia, which checked the Allied advance east in early December. Tabarka was just behind the limit of the advance that winter.

Tabarka Ras Rajel War Cemetery contains 500 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 60 of them unidentified.